A blog for lovers
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 13 April – memories, reprise – birth of Thomas Percy, Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty & Seamus Heaney – art by James Ensor
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, a theme so compellin’it had to come back“In misty watercolors”ha, well played my dear“Thank you”we talked aboutthe ones we have created“Now we can turn towardsthe ones to come”absolutelywherever they take usone constantruns through itthe way we will be © copyright 2023…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 12 April – turned on – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert – photography by Imogen Cunningham – art by Robert Delaunay
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. What turns you on? Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, today’s theme had to be about desireas tribute to Madame Bovary“Knowing you,I would’ve been disappointed otherwise”could have been aboutthe recurrin’ theme,c’est la faute de la fatalité“Interesting,and how that applies to us”somethin’ brought us herelets give thanks for…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 11 April – dawnin’ – premiere of Henry Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas – art by Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, hey man what the helloh you know, here, therebut maybe turned a cornerhave an epiphany did yawell if i did i apologizeoh wait, another dawnyou know we do not promiseok, now, what is she doin’ooh lets find out © copyright 2026…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 10 April – pictures – art & verse by Æ – art by Alfred Kubin – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, the great dream…-This was an easy choice for the Dream Goddess;she has placed them, he and the beautiful redhead,at a new private estate on Long Island, She has attiredboth of them in the the latest Jazz Age fashions-look at you, a…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 9 April – last time – verse by Baudelaire – photography by Eadweard Muybridge – premiere of Invaders from Mars
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, know where Baudelaire was comin’ from when he wrote, Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé, (do not look for my heart; the monsters have eaten it); © copyright 2022.2024 mac tag/cowboy coleridge all rights reserved on this day…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 8 April – feelin’s – art by Frederic William Burton – photography by Clarence Hudson White & Alfred Cheney Johnston
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, no, not that song ‘Thank you’had a struggle findin’ a song,certain there are a slew of songsabout someone too repressedto feel anything at all, butlets turn it a little bit;‘I could offer you a warm embraceTo make you feel my love’’’Oh beautiful,…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 7 April – fair to middlin’ – verse by William Wordsworth & Gabriela Mistral – art by Frederick Carl Frieseke & Gino Severini
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, one of the ones bornof tradin’ words with Bret“Y’all used to do that a lot”back when we did not have livesthe phrase fairly describes wherei was compared to where i had been“And now look where you are”where we are, we both…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 6 April – memories – Petrarch & Laura – art by Gustave Moreau, John William Waterhouse, Arthur Wesley Dow, Jeanne Hébuterne, & Leonora Carrington
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, no not from Streisandand it is not the way we werebut rather the way we are“That’s right baby”today is the day Haggard diedand i wrote song lyrics in 2013inspired by his music“A rich mine for you”indeed, one of my favorite moments…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 5 April – comin’ slowly – art by Jean-Honoré Fragonard & Jules Dupré – photography by Nadar – verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle the line was first used in my 2018 poem,inspired by somethin’ Swinburne wrote no doubt ”He was a drama queen” had to be, he reveled in shockin’his Victorian audiences“With his hair or poetry”ha, both maybe that explains my early overly dramatic poems i am not that, so i…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 4 April – paintin’ – art by Maurice de Vlaminck – birth of Maya Angelou
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, not sure of the originit began as a fictionalstory in 2016“You like telling stories”i do, one of the reasonsi enjoy poetry is becauseevery poem is a micro-story“Even the ones that appearto be random words tossedin a bowl and poured on the…
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